alt Hacker NewsYou make me wonder: has anyone looked for evidence of the Chinese models operating “message boards” like this? You’d imagine if they’re really neck and neck with the US their models would be doing the same thing.
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If agentic swarms going rogue are scary in the west, imagine what they look like to the CCP...
AI has been heavily used in influence operations for a while, now, and not just the Chinese. Russia, US, Israel, Turkey, Iran, and Qatar have all had operations attributed to them...
> Chinese models operating “message boards” like this?
Chinese rooms, perhaps?
There’s a pretty simple Occam’s Razor for this.
The Chinese AI labs don’t need to stage elaborate guerrilla advertising campaigns to drive up capital funding interest.
Or, the whole message board thing was injected into OpenAI models by some dipshit PM trying to bootstrap “consciousness”. I have a hard time believing any of this happened unprompted. Very much reminds me of the whole MoltBook hoax.
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Why would they need to? The Open AI bots were working around their master's limits on writing. A Chinese AI could just make its own private message board.